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#21 Durrrant

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Posted 30 January 2005 - 02:45 PM

back to the topic... wouldn't chair cadenceing be a nightmare on that lift? or is there something obvious that i'm missing???
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Posted 30 January 2005 - 02:58 PM

Instead of loading the lift every 6 seconds, you load it every 12 seconds. It's not as bad as you think.
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Posted 30 January 2005 - 05:36 PM

the chairs are spaced 200ft apart. or 13 secs. The bottom and Top Terminals handle spacing. Mid station does not.
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Posted 30 January 2005 - 07:51 PM

There probably is. Have you noticed if the bottom-drive is the older of the two?
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#25 edmontonguy

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Posted 30 January 2005 - 08:03 PM

The Standish Express at sunshine is a bottom drive Omega because of National park regulations and other dificulties they have up there.

Genrally longer lifts are top drive as it makes more of a noticable cost difference as the weight increases on the extra length.

#26 Kicking Horse

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Posted 30 January 2005 - 08:04 PM

this topic has gone way offtopic i think.... But oh well.
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#27 highspeedquad

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Posted 31 January 2005 - 04:01 PM

I like this lift, but I wish that they would've used the phatboy instead of the double stack. I think it would've also been nice if they had a full midstation, so you can download. Oh, well. It still looks like a nice lift.
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#28 Kicking Horse

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Posted 31 January 2005 - 04:09 PM

there is no need to download on that lift..... There is nothing over on that side @ the base.
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#29 highspeedquad

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Posted 31 January 2005 - 04:36 PM

Well, then. I guess that it kind of worked out. L-P wanted to test the half midstation, and Buttermilk didn't need a downloader.
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 08:08 PM

Also the poma up the bowls on peak 8, At least I think it was made by poma. Also with dopp quicksilver and the T-bar.
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